Two lawsuits accuse a state-funded children’s residential facility of widespread abuse.
The suits are on behalf of Jamarion Bullock, who attended the facility, and Pamela Boone, whose child attended the facility. The suits claim that members at Camp SAYLA, which is under contract with the Alabama Department of Youth Services, beat children who stayed there and that the abuse was well-known among both staff members and the children who lived at Camp SAYLA.
The suits name Kenyatta Danzey, who worked at the facility during the time that Bullock and Boone’s child lived there. The lawsuits claim Danzey beat the children with broomsticks, held them upside down in trash cans and encouraged the children to fight while rewarding those who did with treats…